Applications

Many important computational problems will only be solved by building quantum computers.

Nature is quantum mechanical. Because quantum computers can model physical systems at the most fundamental level, they have the potential to drive breakthroughs in a wide number of industries, from clean energy to semiconductor manufacturing, and from oil and gas to basic physics research.

Quantum computers could dramatically extend our abilities to simulate the structure and properties of molecules, including how chemicals, drugs, and hormones interact with the human body. Through large scale analytics and machine learning, they can help shed light on gene expression, and how specific mutations emerge to clinical relevance.

One of the first applications of quantum computers will be in finding solutions to complex optimization problems, such as scheduling, routing, and mission planning, creating disproportionate value for organizations that rely on operational efficiencies.

Many research directions in advanced AI are compute-limited. Harnessing quantum computers' ability to solve new kinds of models and compute in an exponentially large vector space has the potential to unlock a new generation of intelligent systems.